BACKGROUND Chronic pulmonary complication is the most common delayed toxic effect of sulfur mustard (SM) and it has no treatment so far. OBJECTIVES To evaluate short-term therapeutic effects of inhaled tiotropium bromide and pulmonary rehabilitation on pulmonary function of patients with SM induced lung injury. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a randomized clinical trial, using convenient sampling m...

712 Soil physical conditions can aff ect diff usion, environmental fate, and effi cacy of fumigants in soil disinfestation treatments. Water seals (applying water using sprinklers to soil following fumigation) can eff ectively reduce fumigant emissions from sandy loam soils. Soil column studies compared the eff ectiveness of water seals in reducing cis-1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D) emissions from...

Our group has reported several intrinsic gene sets important for identifying subtypes of breast cancer with clinical signifi cance. 1–3 In these studies we have explored and published methods for sample classifi cation across diff erent genomic platforms and tissue qualities. In 2009, we suggested the use of a standardised gene set (PAM50) for subtype classifi cation to improve the classifi cat...

We consider optimal stopping of independent sequences. Assuming that the corresponding imbedded planar point processes converge to a Poisson process we introduce some additional conditions which allow to approximate the optimal stopping problem of the discrete time sequence by the optimal stopping of the limiting Poisson process. The optimal stopping of the involved Poisson processes is reduced...

A Romanowsky type (Diff-3) stain was used for identifying Helicobacter pylori in gastric biopsy specimens from 50 patients with ulcer and non-ulcer dyspepsia. Air dried smears were prepared from fresh biopsy tissue and histological sections were prepared from paraffin wax processed tissue. The Diff-3 technique is accomplished in five steps and takes about 30 seconds. Results using the Diff-3 st...

Reduced Differental Transform Method (RDTM), which is one of the useful and effective numerical method, is applied to solve nonlinear time-dependent Foam Drainage Equation (FDE) with different initial conditions. We compare our method with the famous Adomian Decomposition and Laplace Decomposition Methods. The obtained results demonstrated that RDTM is a powerful tool for solving nonlinear part...

in this paper, we study rst order linear fuzzy dierential equations with fuzzy coecient and initial value. we use the generalized dierentiability concept and apply the exponent matrix to present the general form of their solutions. finally, one example is given to illustrate our results.

In this thesis we study numerical methods for simulating mechanical deformations of cell membranes. Such models are given in terms of fourth order partial di erential equations. In order to enable comparisons of the models predictions to experimental results, the equations must be solved on arbitrary cell geometries. A Finite Element Method based on subdivision surfaces, which is capable of dis...